Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Muskatellers, gave him little pin wheels and ocarinas and beer mugs, entertained him with folk tales and Tarock-pleasures the stiff castle denied him. The severe Empress Elizabeth, who, as she bluntly put it, "was sick and tired of being brood mare to His Majesty," openly encouraged the relationship. Soon all Vienna knew of it, and approved. On the Emperor's birthday, little children would come with flowers to watch the pre-dawn passage of der alte Kaiser from his secret gate to that of "Käthi, the uncrowned Empress...
...addition, this party help to discover the relationship between sun sports and radio transmission, may determine the atomic constitution of the ionosphere, and may enable long-distance television broadcasts, now impractical, to become a fact...
Though Mr. Farley grinned a flashbulb grin as he left the White House, he left behind a chilly Administration silence. Something had changed in the relationship of Handyman Farley and Boss Roosevelt. Thereafter Jim Farley's visits to the White House were infrequent. Last July he went to Hyde Park for a long afternoon's chat with his boss. No one knew exactly what was said, but again something had changed...
...transferring this doleful drama to film, the producers have also transferred (without improving) the novel's main dilemma. Boiled down it is: how to make convincing the relationship between a father, who behaves like a doting old maid, and a son, who is a little too bad to be true...
Until last week old-style investment bankers led by Manhattan's Morgan Stanley & Co. relied on argument and an attitude of dignified disdain to discourage competitive bidding for corporate securities. Their argument: competitive bidding disrupts the banker-client relationship ("You might as well get bids on an appendectomy...